Phillies Notebook: Abreu hopes to contribute

9:15 PM,
Feb. 16, 2014

Bobby Abreu has not played a major-league game in a Phillies uniform since 2006.

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At about 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, two of the biggest names missing from Phillies camp strolled into the clubhouse, hugging and horsing around like it was 2005.

Jimmy Rollins was just 26 then. Bobby Abreu was 31, a veteran when current organizational stalwarts like Rollins, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard were just getting a taste of the big leagues.

Abreu, now 39, is here on a minor-league contract, and in camp as a non-roster invitee. He did not play professionally in 2013, instead opting to ready himself for winter ball in his native Venezuela. Abreu played well enough with Leones del Caracas that ...